Telephone Preference Service laws enforced
I was really pleased to read that Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service has brought a company to book which has resulted in the Telephone Preference Service Laws Enforced and legal precedent set. Hoorah! I’m sure I’m not alone totally exasperated by with cold calling when, despite repeated requests, you know that your name is not going to be removed from the list, no matter how hard you try. Why is it that company owners who rely on telesales just don’t bother to buy a ‘clean’ list? Would have been a lot cheaper than the £36K fine.
“TPS chief warns telemarketers of increased risk of fines as trading standards enforces TPS laws for first time
The Telephone Preference Service has warned businesses conducting sales and marketing calls of an increased risk of fines after a local trading standards authority made a legal first by prosecuting a company for calling people registered on the TPS’s ‘do not call’ list.
In February, Dorset County Council Trading Standards Service issued a first-of-its-kind fine to a home improvements company, Apple Group Holdings Limited, for making unwanted sales and marketing calls to residents registered on the TPS. The company was fined £36,000 for causing ‘persistent nuisance’ to elderly and vulnerable people. This action has set a legal precedent, paving the way for companies operating nationally to be fined for TPS breaches in every county it operates.
Read the rest of the article here from the Direct Marketing Association
An interesting post from Zachary Lukasiewicz (29/4/14) about the foibles of using IE. Just this last week when updating my own website I really began to understand some of the differences between using IE and Chrome. Quite a different look, sometimes, especially the way it seems to allow Skype to take over the contact numbers. And with Constant Contact which I use for my newsletters, some basic formatting rules just fall over on IE whereas they work fine on Chrome. And a colleague’s website header was perfect on Chrome but not right without a lot of work done on IE – even the latest version.
So understanding more fully the reasons not to use internet explorer has helped me… I hope you find it useful too. Has IE had its day then?
“Since the recent security lock-down of Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer) yesterday I figured I should write a post to all those people who still may actually be using Internet Explorer